Well it's hard when someone messes with your favourite franchise and doesn't understand anything about the franchise they're messing with - or at least willfully disregards it.

My least favorite parts were when they became soooo very self-referential. Yes, you're trying to remind the Trekkies in the audience of their fond Star Trek memories... in a Star Trek movie... STOP DOING THAT and create NEW Star Trek memories for us instead...

Oh, trust me, I know all about it. Every book I've ever read that was turned into a movie was totally messed with. Which I think is why I am ok with it now, cause I refuse to get upset over it anymore.

I'll have to see it to know what you're talking about, though. No spoilers.

I don't think I'm even going to be able to run the console, what with my crappy internet. And if you really do have to pay $40 to play used games, that is just ridiculous. I mean, like normal, if there's a game I have GOT to get, I will probably get one eventually. But...eh.

Duuuude. Work has been super hectic lately. And one of the other managers has decided that he's the "boss", which makes it all even worse. He's always thought of himself that way, but today he decided to tell me that when he's there I have to do what he says, cause " When I'm here I'm the boss". In reality, when I'm there I'm shift manager, not him. Even says so on the schedule. Normally I don't give a crap, and let him pull power plays cause he needs it more than I do. And then he decided to talk a bunch of shit about the other manager, who is both of our boss. So I think I'm gonna have to have a talk with him, and it's going to be rough cause when work is over he just leaves, and I don't want to make a big deal about it. Ugh.

The best way to initiate that conversation might be to tell him to do something while you are shift manager. If he gives any pushback on the grounds that he's in charge, you have your opening to point out that you're the one who is actually in charge.

Out at another Cub Camp this weekend. That's 3 weeks in a row I've gone camping and I'm really tired of outhouses and mosquitos and being out in the rain and sleeping on hard surfaces and sleeping bags and being dirty and sweaty. Guh.

I also have a cousin visiting from England this week. Nice to see him again - I've missed him in the 5 years since I last saw him.

There's a lot of my extended family that I don't maintain ties with as well as I should. However, this particular cousin came and stayed in Canada for a couple of year, so I got to spend quite a bit of time with him.

Thats cool. My parents both have kids from previous marriages, and the ones on dad's side we reconnected with them when his had to divorce his ex wife for my parents to get married. But they're totally religious and not ok with people that aren't.

Huh - I thought I'd posted about my PS3 hard drive corrupt sector issue here... guess I didn't. Let me find the original post from a few days ago...

Here it is:

grumble, grumble...

So I have(had) about 700GB of games and videos and music and pictures on my 1TB PS3 HDD. Turned it on on Monday - boom - corrupt file system error.

Tried all the options through the service menu, etc. In the end, no choice but to reformat.

I have a backup, but it's about a year old. So I restore that backup aaaannnd... none of my games are there... Oh right - the backup is from my old PS3. The glitchy one with a dying GPU.

Now the old PS3 has had most of the stuff that was on there cleaned off, so I'm now restoring that old backup onto the old PS3. After that's done (about 20 hours so far) I will run the Data Transfer Utility between the old PS3 and the "new" one. This will allow me to get the 400GB of games that are on that backup onto my main PS3, but if I recall, last time I did it, it took about 36 hours. Blow.

But hey, once that's done, at least I'll only have about 300GB of games left to re-download off of PSN! Score!! I might have my PS3 back up to speed inside of a month! Yay... and stuff...

Ah, the joys of technology. We finally got everything working at work again. It's been like 4 weeks. My boss was all "No facebooking!" as he walked out the door, after I turned my phone on, so I replied "I don't FB, I just use the wifi to tell you what to do!".

I have one of my cousins from England in town this week with his girlfriend. I've enjoyed catching up with him. We're going out for dinner again tonight and then tomorrow morning they leave to go to Vancouver for a week. Then I'm having a date night with my wife tomorrow night. Haven't finalized what we're doing yet though.

E3 has been a lot of fun this year. I love, love, love, love, LOVE the crowd reaction at the Sony conference when they announced that they wouldn't be doing any of the DRM crap that Microsoft is doing. I don't think I've EVER seen such a huge reaction from an E3 crowd before.

lol, that's awesome. I don't know what Microsoft is thinking with charging people to share games.

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They're not charging people to share games. They're flat out saying you CANNOT lend games. You may gift a game to a friend (who has been on your friends list for at least 30-days), but it is a one-time non-reversable transfer. That friend cannot then gift the game to anyone else, ever.

lol, that's awesome. I don't know what Microsoft is thinking with charging people to share games.

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They're not charging people to share games. They're flat out saying you CANNOT lend games. You may gift a game to a friend (who has been on your friends list for at least 30-days), but it is a one-time non-reversable transfer. That friend cannot then gift the game to anyone else, ever.

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I thought I read a thing where you could, but you had to pay a fee. But I'll be honest, I didn't really pay attention. X1 doesn't even exist so far as I'm concerned.

lol, that's awesome. I don't know what Microsoft is thinking with charging people to share games.

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They're not charging people to share games. They're flat out saying you CANNOT lend games. You may gift a game to a friend (who has been on your friends list for at least 30-days), but it is a one-time non-reversable transfer. That friend cannot then gift the game to anyone else, ever.

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I thought I read a thing where you could, but you had to pay a fee. But I'll be honest, I didn't really pay attention. X1 doesn't even exist so far as I'm concerned.

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That was the rumour before they clarified. You're not wrong about likely having read that at some point.

Going to see Man of Steel tomorrow with my Dad. Looking forward to it. But I'm even more excited to try The Last of Us, which I just picked up today. Can't wait until the kids go to bed so I can pop it in!